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It’s nice to have a little activity and energy in the room.”

Many restaurant and café owners might think that “maybe we’d have to kick everyone
out at dinnertime”. “But it’s actually not the case. It’s great for the restaurant, too,
because when you open at 5 p.m., you’re not packed, typically. It’s nice to have a little
activity and energy in the room. When somebody walks by on the street and they say,
‘oh, this restaurant’s open but nobody’s in there,’ that’s not a good thing.

There’s plenty of space. You just have to figure out how to activate the vacancy windows
that exist in spaces and buildings throughout the city and figure out how to connect
those spaces with the people who can use them right now. The most sustainable urban
development is making better use of what we have, as opposed to building anything new.
It’s about not having to build more capacity, but realizing that the capacity is already
there. You just need to reprogram the space to accommodate the way that people want
to use it in the 21st century. If you can do that, you can get a lot more out of what you
already have.

At restaurants, it’s typical for air conditioning and other resources to run all day because
the prep kitchen is open. All this energy is being wasted if you don’t invite people in to
activate these spaces. Not only is it an aesthetically beautiful environment that’s going to
inefficient use, but the energy that it takes to keep it open, and the amount of resources
that it took designing the interior and building it out. If it’s only open between 6 p.m. and
midnight, that represents a huge waste. I think that we can make something out of that.

Motivation and food at one place – the best combination together. It’s always better to
have people working around you to see them as an example and get motivated. Also, the
best variety of food at the same desk where you are working. And who doesn’t like to be
part of some conversations which might be of your interest happening just right next to
you. The space where you are sitting have all the selection of buzz which you would
never expect to be in a traditional office space.